The Fellowship was fortunate enough to obtain a copy of KILL
SHAKESPEARE: THE TIDE OF BLOOD #1 from IDW Publishing. Conor McCreery and Anthony
Del Col write, and Andy Belanger draws.
The war has been won, but not for Romeo. He has lost his
Juliet to Hamlet, and the Prodigal army is preparing for the inevitable
invasion by the armies of Titus. But when Romeo has a prophetic dream, no one listens
until Miranda arrives to warn them of her father Prospero’s plans. So the team
begins their journey to stop him and save the world.
The thing I like about this story, believe it or not, is how
different it is from Shakespeare’s works. The characters feel true to the
stories they come from (the dialogue is a big part of that—kudos to the
writers), but that’s where the similarities end. This becomes an epic “journey
to the end of the earth” story in a way that hooks my interest. The people are
familiar, but the story is not what we’re used to from them.
These guys have turned valiant Romeo into a reluctant,
fragile shell with little to fight for. And they’ve done it in a way so that I’m
looking forward to seeing if he can pull himself out of it. Check this one out.
KILL SHAKESPEARE: THE TIDE OF BLOOD #1 is available now at
your FLCS or by order from idwpublishing.com.
~Mike
